Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, is a plant that contains psychoactive compounds that can temporarily alter people's ...

More than 50 million Americans live with chronic pain; among them, approximately 1 in 10 take prescription opioids regularly.

A new study led by a University of Chicago researcher finds that health care spending in the United States has increasingly ...

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has published a new call to action statement urging the sports medicine ...

Walk into a crowded coffee shop, and what catches your eye as you take in the scene could say as much about you as the ...

Scientists have discovered how damage to the myelin sheath—the insulating layer around nerve fibers—affects brain activity ...

The rate of a life-threatening gut disease called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has decreased by 38% in very premature ...

Some people are more sensitive to low-frequency noise, such as from ventilation systems, heat pumps, wind turbines and ...

Scientists have identified a promising new strategy to tackle one of the biggest obstacles in treating glioblastoma, one of ...

Working with concurrent electroencephalogram and functional magnetic resonance imaging technology at the Beckman Institute's ...

In the United States, prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related disease and death in men. About half of prostate ...

Researchers identified a six-gene signature in microscopic colorectal cancer (CRC) liver metastases that may help predict ...